title: Matthews, Albert O., "The Story of an Ampoule". The Firing Line, March 1932

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Box 397, Folder 50

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Addenda


unitCode: ACAH

level: file

title: F.J. Stokes Machine Company, tablet press, PD 42035

label: Collection Author

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Company

label: See more items in

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 9: Equipment Data Files

label: Date

label: Container

content: Box 361, Folder 11

label: Archival Repository

label: Type

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

label: Collection Citation

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

label: Collection Rights

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

label: Collection Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

usage_flag: Large EAD

type: Collection

type: Series

unittitle: Equipment Data Files

type: File

archival_repository: ACAH

digital_assets_available: false


title: Factory, Walkerville, Ontario specifications

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 12: Drawings

content: Box 444, Folder 8

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Drawings


title: Pangborn Corporation, dust collector, PD 33998

content: Parke, Davis Company

indexedContent: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 9: Equipment Data Files

content: Box 339, Folder 14

indexedContent: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials


title: New drug blocks fevers, 1948

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 13: Addenda

content: Box 410, Folder 17

content: Archival materials

unittitle: New drug blocks fevers, 1948

title: New drug blocks fevers, 1948


title: Private Rx file, X,Y,Z

content: Parke, Davis Company

content: Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records. / Series 7: Control Department Records

content: Box 307, Folder 23

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Control Department Records

unittitle: Private Rx file, X,Y,Z

title: Private Rx file, X,Y,Z


title: The Marine's Hymn

label: Series Creator

content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997

indexedContent: DeVincent, Sam

content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 2: Armed Forces / 2.8: Marine Corps

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1919/1942 type:inclusive

content: Box 62, Folder C

content: Archival materials

label: Series Citation

content: The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

label: Series Rights

label: Series Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research.

type: Subseries

unittitle: Marine Corps

unittitle: The Marine's Hymn

title: The Marine's Hymn


title: Peterson, Arthur D., Company, Incorporated. Catalog and Turf Manual, New York, New York

content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969

indexedContent: Warshaw, Isadore

content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Sports / 1: Manufacturers and Distributors of Sporting Goods

label: Sponsor

content: Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

flag: datechar:creation type:inclusive

content: Box 4, Folder 6

content: Archival materials

content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Sports, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

content: Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.


title: Alexander, C.B., patents (copies)

label: Collection Creator

content: Alexander, Clinton B.

indexedContent: Alexander, Clinton B.

content: Clinton B. Alexander Binder Company (Washington, D.C.)

content: Alexander Binder Company Records

indexedContent: Alexander Binder Company Records

content: Alexander Binder Company Records / Series 5: Patent and Trademark Materials

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1915/1933 type:inclusive

content: Box 5, Folder 20

content: Archival materials

content: Alexander Binder Company Records, 1921-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

unittitle: Alexander Binder Company Records

unittitle: Patent and Trademark Materials

unittitle: Alexander, C.B., patents (copies)

title: Alexander, C.B., patents (copies)


level: item

title: Austin Senators

content: Newman, Louis

indexedContent: Newman, Louis

content: Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia / Series 1: Team Programs / 1.1: Minor League Programs / Minor League Programs, 1950-1959:

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1958/1958 type:inclusive

content: Box 1, Folder 4

content: Archival materials

content: Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia, 1895-1999, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Gloves required with unprotected photographs.

unittitle: Team Programs

unittitle: Minor League Programs

unittitle: Minor League Programs, 1950-1959:

type: Item

unittitle: Austin Senators

title: Austin Senators


title: Fox Cities Foxes

content: Newman, Louis

content: Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia / Series 1: Team Programs / 1.1: Minor League Programs / Minor League Programs, 1963:

content: Box 1, Folder 8

content: Archival materials

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

unittitle: Minor League Programs, 1963:

unittitle: Fox Cities Foxes

title: Fox Cities Foxes


title: Jenkins Store

label: Collection Donor

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

indexedContent: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

label: Collection Manufacturer

content: Consolidation Coal Company

indexedContent: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

indexedContent: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.20: #2844-#3020

content: Digitization of Series 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.

content: Box 90, Item 2853

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

indexedContent: Negatives

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Photographs

unittitle: Glass Plate and Film Negatives

unittitle: Jenkins Store

title: Jenkins Store


title: Pump room at No. 203 Mine

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.15: #1765-#1867

content: Box 85, Item 1809

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Pump room at No. 203 Mine

title: Pump room at No. 203 Mine


title: Officials in front of office building

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.7: #0882-#0998

content: Box 77, Item 911

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Officials in front of office building

title: Officials in front of office building


title: Tramway Location No. 203 Mine

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.1: #0039-#0153

content: Box 71, Item 81

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Tramway Location No. 203 Mine

title: Tramway Location No. 203 Mine


title: No. 201 Mine and Sub Station

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.26: Film Negatives, #1-#2180

content: Box 67, Item 766

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Film Negatives, #1-#2180

unittitle: No. 201 Mine and Sub Station

title: No. 201 Mine and Sub Station


title: Unidentified portrait of a man

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.28: Miscellaneous

content: circa 1920s

content: Box 99, Folder 2

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Miscellaneous

unittitle: Unidentified portrait of a man

title: Unidentified portrait of a man


title: D66 52-02, Washington, D.C. Sewage Pumping Station

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering

content: Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry

content: Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives / Series 8: Structures and Construction

content: December 27, 1905

content: Box 5, Item 17

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

content: Mechanical and Civil Engineering Glass Plate Negatives, 1915-1980s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

unittitle: Structures and Construction


title: Yuengling, D.G. Brewing Company,  New York

content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969

content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Beer / 2: Companies

content: Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

content: Box 3, Folder 40

content: Archival materials

content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Beer, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

content: Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.

unittitle: Companies


title: McRoberts gardens

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.11: #1320-#1436

content: Digitization of Series 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.

content: Box 81, Item 1367

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: McRoberts gardens

title: McRoberts gardens


title: No. 204 Fan and pit mouth

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.8: #0999-#1104

content: Box 78, Item 1047

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: No. 204 Fan and pit mouth

title: No. 204 Fan and pit mouth


title: 4" coal, No. 204 Mine

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.13: #1569-#1659

content: circa 1917

content: Box 83, Item 1644B

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: 4" coal, No. 204 Mine

title: 4" coal, No. 204 Mine


title: McRoberts Café

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

indexedContent: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.11: #1320-#1436

content: Box 81, Item 1432

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: McRoberts Café

title: McRoberts Café


title: May Day activities

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.21: #3021A-#3183C

content: circa 1930

content: Box 91, Item 3109B

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: May Day activities

title: May Day activities


title: Garden

content: Bethlehem Steel Corporation

content: Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company

content: Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company photographs and other materials / Series 2: Photographs / 2.3: Glass Plate and Film Negatives / 2.3.12: #1437-#1568

content: circa 1916

content: Box 82, Item 1550

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

unittitle: Photographs

unittitle: Garden

title: Garden


title: Complete Business Services Corporation

label: Collection Collector

content: Jones, Ernie

indexedContent: Jones, Ernie

content: West Coast Computer Faire Collection

indexedContent: West Coast Computer Faire Collection

content: West Coast Computer Faire Collection / Series 2: 1980 Faire Materials

flag: datechar:creation era:ce type:inclusive

content: Box 1, Folder 134

content: Archival materials

content: West Coast Computer Faire Collection, 1977, 1980, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

content: The collection is open for research use.

unittitle: West Coast Computer Faire Collection

unittitle: 1980 Faire Materials

unittitle: Complete Business Services Corporation

title: Complete Business Services Corporation


title: Prentice-Hall, Incorporated

content: Jones, Ernie

label: See more items in

content: West Coast Computer Faire Collection

content: West Coast Computer Faire Collection / Series 1: 1977 Faire Materials

content: Box 1, Folder 87

content: Archival materials

unittitle: 1977 Faire Materials

unittitle: Prentice-Hall, Incorporated

title: Prentice-Hall, Incorporated


title: Fuller Rock, Rhode Island

content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry

content: Lighthouse Postcards Collection

indexedContent: Lighthouse Postcards Collection

content: Lighthouse Postcards Collection / Series 1: Postcards

content: Box 1

content: Archival materials

content: Lighthouse Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

unittitle: Lighthouse Postcards Collection

unittitle: Postcards

unittitle: Fuller Rock, Rhode Island

title: Fuller Rock, Rhode Island


title: 212-239

content: Henderson, Daniel B. (1862-1940)

indexedContent: Henderson, Daniel B. (1862-1940)

content: Hashimoto, Kazuo

indexedContent: Hashimoto, Kazuo

content: Daniel Henderson Portable Electronic Devices Documentary Collection / Series 6: Book Six

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1990/1994 type:inclusive

label: Date

content: Box 6, Folder 1

content: Archival materials

content: Daniel Henderson Portable Electronic Devices Documentary Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

unittitle: Book Six

title: 212-239


title: Valuation Survey 88

content: Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company

indexedContent: Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company

content: New York Central Railroad Company

indexedContent: New York Central Railroad Company

content: New York Central Railroad Valuation Negatives

label: Container

content: Box 21

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Negatives

content: New York Central Railway Valuation Negatives, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection items available for reproduction. Smithsonian Institution owns rights. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

content: Collection is opened for research. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

unittitle: Valuation Survey 88

title: Valuation Survey 88


title: David Vetter and Family

content: Vetter, David, 1971-1984

indexedContent: Vetter, David

content: Texas Children's Hospital

indexedContent: Texas Children's Hospital

content: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

content: David Vetter Collection

indexedContent: David Vetter Collection

content: David Vetter Collection / Series 7: Photographs

content: Box 7, Folder 11

label: Archival Repository

content: Archival materials

content: David Vetter Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Some health-related materials in Series 3: Medical Publications, Series 6: Texas Children's Hospital Medical Records, and Series 7: Photographs are restricted until 2034. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: David Vetter Collection

unittitle: David Vetter and Family

title: David Vetter and Family


title: Titles, A-De

content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 33: Reveries

content: Box 1, Folder 1

label: Type

content: Archival materials

content: The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Titles, A-De

title: Titles, A-De


title: Fanny Farmer candy

label: Collection Designer

content: Nesbitt, Saul, 1920-1993

indexedContent: Nesbitt, Saul

content: Saul Nesbitt Papers

indexedContent: Saul Nesbitt Papers

content: Saul Nesbitt Papers / Series 5: Photographic Materials / 5.2: Transparencies of Package Designs / 5.2.6: Products beginning with F

content: undated

content: Box 9

content: Archival materials

content: Negatives

label: Collection Citation

content: Saul Nesbitt Papers, 1951-1984, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Saul Nesbitt Papers

unittitle: Photographic Materials

unittitle: Transparencies of Package Designs

unittitle: Products beginning with F

unittitle: Fanny Farmer candy

title: Fanny Farmer candy


title: Soundies Reel: III

label: Collection Performer

content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984

indexedContent: Basie, Count

content: Smith, Ernie

indexedContent: Smith, Ernie

content: Webster, Ben

indexedContent: Webster, Ben

content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971

indexedContent: Armstrong, Louis

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

indexedContent: Ellington, Duke

content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996

indexedContent: Fitzgerald, Ella

content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986

indexedContent: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David)

content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-

indexedContent: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-

content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949

indexedContent: Robinson, Bill

content: Davis, Miles

indexedContent: Davis, Miles

content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection

indexedContent: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection

content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles

content: America's Jazz Heritage: A Partnership of the The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution provided the funding to produce many of the video master and reference copies.

label: Extent

content: 1 Motion picture film

content: Reel OF 491.181

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images [31983000035667]

content: Motion picture films

indexedContent: Motion picture films

content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

label: Collection Rights

label: Scope and Contents note

content:
Descriptive Summary: An Ernie Smith compilation reel:

1. Sunny Dunham in Sleepy Lagoon

Corporate Creator: Official Films

Performer(s): Sunny Dunham and Orchestra

Song Title(s): "Sleepy Lagoon", vocals by an unidentified male vocalist

2. Glen Gray's Orchestra in Sentimental Journey

Performer(s): Glen Gray and His Orchestra, unidentified male/female vocal duo

Song Title(s): "Sentimental Journey"

3. Dining Sisters in Winter Wonderland

Performer(s): The Three Dining Sisters

Song Title(s): "Winter Wonderland"

4. Whispering

Corporate Creator: Official Films

Performer(s): Bob Kennedy

Song Title(s): "Whispering", vocals by Kennedy

5. Blue Moon featuring Wendy Bishop

Performer(s): Wendy Bishop

Song Title(s): "Blue Moon", vocals by Bishop

6. My Blue Heaven starring Harry Cool

Performer(s): Harry Cool, male vocalist

Song Title(s): My Blue Heaven

7. Number Ten Lullaby Lane featuring Marlyn Stuart

Performer(s): Marlyn Stuart, female vocalist

Song Title(s): Number Ten Lullaby Lane

8. A Lover Is Blue

Performer(s): Tommy Reynolds and His Orchestra, Phyllis Lane

Song Title(s): A Lover is Blue, vocals by Lane

9. Penthouse Serenade Performer(s) Johnny Downs and Gale Storm

Song Title(s): "Penthouse Serenade"

10. Sweet and Lovely starring Harry Cool

Corporate Creator: Official Films

Performer(s): Harry Cool

Song Title(s): "Sweet and Lovely", vocals by Cool

11. I'll See You in My Dreams

Performer(s): Bob Kennedy

Song Title(s): "I'll See You in My Dreams", vocals by Kennedy

12. Moon Over Miami

Performer(s): Dean Hudson and His Orchestra Song Title: "Moon Over Miami", vocals by Hudson

Video reference copy available.

label: Collection Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research but the films are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection

unittitle: Additional Titles

unittitle: Soundies Reel: III

title: Soundies Reel: III


title: Calvacade (Cavalcade*) of Broadway, 1951, Eddie Condon Orch.

content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984

content: Smith, Ernie

content: Webster, Ben

content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996

content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-

content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949

content: Davis, Miles

content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection

content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 3: Reference Videos

label: Sponsor

content: Copyright 1951

content: Box 15, Item RV 491.210

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Moving Images

indexedContent: Moving Images

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

unittitle: Reference Videos


title: Coleman Hawkins in Brussels

content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984

content: Smith, Ernie

content: Webster, Ben

content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996

content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-

content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949

content: Davis, Miles

content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection

indexedContent: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles

content: 1 Motion picture film

content: Reel OF 491.127

indexedContent: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images [31983000035568]

content: Motion picture films

content:
Descriptive Summary: 1160f., b&w

Copyright: 1962 Performance Date: 1962

Director: Yannick Bruynogne

Performer(s): Coleman Hawkins, George Arvanitas (p), Mickey Baker (g), Jimmy Woode (b), Kansas Fields (dr)

Video reference copy available.

unittitle: Coleman Hawkins in Brussels

title: Coleman Hawkins in Brussels


level: collection

title: N W Ayer Advertising Agency Records

label: Creator

content: Ayer (N W) Incorporated.

indexedContent: Ayer (N W) Incorporated.

label: Names

content: American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- Advertisements

content: Cunningham & Walsh.

indexedContent: Cunningham & Walsh.

content: Hixson & Jorgenson

indexedContent: Hixson & Jorgenson

content: United Air Lines, Inc. -- Advertisements

indexedContent: United Air Lines, Inc.

content: Ayer, Francis Wayland

indexedContent: Ayer, Francis Wayland

content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997

indexedContent: De Kooning, Willem

content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986

indexedContent: O'Keeffe, Georgia

label: Topic

content: Advertising agencies

indexedContent: Advertising agencies

content: advertising

indexedContent: advertising

label: Provenance

content: The collection was donated by N W Ayer ABH International, April 15, 1975 and by Ayer & Partners, October 30, 1996.

content: Ayer (N W) Incorporated.

content: N W Ayer Advertising Agency Records

indexedContent: N W Ayer Advertising Agency Records

label: Summary

content:
Collection consists of records documenting one of the oldest advertising agencies created in Philadelphia. The company then moves to New York and expanses to international markets. During its history NW Ayer & Sons acquires a number of other advertising agencies and is eventually purchased. The largest portion of the collection is print advertisements but also
includes radio and television. NW Ayer is known for some of the slogans created for major American companies.

label: Accruals

content: The Archives Center received more materials in 2001 and 2010.

label: Biographical / Historical

content:
Founded in Philadelphia in 1869, NW Ayer & Son is one of the oldest and largest advertising agencies in America.  For most of its history, it was the undisputed leader and innovator in the field of advertising. In 1876, NW Ayer & Son pioneered the "open contract", a revolutionary change in the method of billing for advertising which became the industry standard for the next hundred years.  NW Ayer pioneered the use of fine art in advertising and established the industry's first art department.  It was the first agency to use a full-time copywriter and the first to institute a copy department.  The agency relocated to New York City in 1974.   During its long history, the agency's clients included many "blue-chip" clients, including American Telephone & Telegraph, DeBeers Consolidated Diamond Mines, Ford Motor Company, Nabisco, R. J. Reynolds and United Airlines. However, in later years, the Ayer's inherent conservatism left the agency vulnerable to the creative revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, the advertising industry restructuring of the 1980s and the economic recession of the early 1990s. The agency was bought out by a Korean investor in 1993.  In 1996, NW Ayer merged with another struggling top twenty United States advertising agency, Darcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles, under the umbrella of the McManus Group.  Ayer continues to operate as a separate, full-service agency.

Through a series of buyouts and mergers, Ayer traces its lineage to the first advertising agency founded in the United States, a Philadelphia agency begun by Volney Palmer in 1841.  Palmer began his career in advertising as a newspaper agent, acting as middleman between newspaper publishers and advertisers across the country. By 1849, Palmer had founded his own newspaper, V. B. Palmer's Register and Spirit of the Press, and had developed a complete system of advertising which included securing advertising space and placing ads in scores of commercial, political, religious, scientific and agricultural journals across the country. Palmer went one step further than the "space jobbers" of the day when he began offering "advertisements carefully drawn for those who have not the time to prepare an original copy." Always an enthusiastic promoter of advertising as an incentive to trade and American economic growth, Palmer promised advertisers that "every dollar paid for advertising in country newspapers will pay back twenty-fold" and encouraged skeptical consumers that "he who wishes to buy cheap should buy of those who advertise."  When Palmer died in 1863, the agency was bought by his bookkeeper, John Joy, who joined with another Philadelphia advertising agency to form Joy, Coe & Sharpe.  That agency was bought out again in 1868 and renamed Coe, Wetherill & Company. In 1877, Coe, Wetherill and Company was bought out by the newly formed NW Ayer & Son.

Francis Wayland Ayer was an ambitious young schoolteacher with an entrepreneurial streak. Having worked for a year soliciting advertisements on a commission basis for the publisher of the National Baptist weekly, Francis Ayer saw the potential to turn a profit as an advertising agent.  In 1869, Ayer persuaded his father, Nathan Wheeler Ayer, to join him in business, and with an initial investment of only $250.00, NW Ayer & Son was born.  Notwithstanding a smallpox epidemic in Philadelphia in 1871 and the general economic depression of the early 1870s, the agency flourished.  The senior Ayer died in 1873, leaving his interest in the agency to his wife, but Francis W. Ayer bought her out, consolidating his interest in the company's management.  In 1877, with Coe, Wetherill & Company (the successor to Palmer's 1841 agency) on the verge of bankruptcy and heavily indebted to Ayer for advertising it had placed in Ayer publications, Ayer assumed ownership of that agency.  Thus did NW Ayer lay claim to being the oldest advertising agency in the country.

Both Nathan Wheeler and Francis Wayland Ayer began their careers as schoolteachers, and one of their legacies was a commitment to the cause of education: correspondence schools and institutions of higher learning were historically well-represented among Ayer clients.   Just after World War I, the agency was heralded as "co-founder of more schools than any citizen of this country" for its conspicuous efforts to advertise private schools.  Well into the 1960s, an "Education Department" at Ayer prepared advertisements for over three hundred private schools, camps and colleges, representing almost half the regional and national advertising done for such institutions.  In fact, to its clients Ayer presented advertising itself as being akin to a system of education.  In 1886, Ayer began promoting the virtues of the Ayer way advertising with the slogan, "Keeping Everlastingly at It Brings Success."

The agency's goals were simple: "to make advertising pay the advertiser, to spend the advertiser's money as though it were our own, to develop, magnify and dignify advertising as a business."  Initially, Ayer's fortunes were tied to newspapers, and the agency began to make a name for itself as compiler and publisher of a widely used American Newspaper Annual.   During the first years, Ayer's singular goal was "to get business, place it [in newspapers] and get money for it"; after several years as an independent space broker, however, Francis Ayer resolved "not to be an order taker any longer."   This decision led NW Ayer and Son to a change in its mode of conducting business which would revolutionize the advertising industry:  in 1876, Ayer pioneered the "open contract" with Diggee & Conard, Philadelphia raised growers and agricultural suppliers.  Prior to the open contract, NW Ayer & Sons and most agencies operated as "space-jobbers," independent wholesalers of advertising space, in which the opportunities for graft and corrupt practices were virtually unlimited.  In contrast, the open contract, wherein the advertiser paid a fixed commission based on the volume of advertising placed, aligned the advertising agent firmly on the side of the advertiser and gave advertisers access to the actual rates charged by newspapers and religious journals. The open contract with a fixed commission has been hailed by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker as one of the "three great landmarks in advertising history." (The other two were Lasker's own development of "reason-why" advertising copy and J. Walter Thompson's pioneering of sex appeal in an advertisement for Woodbury's soap.)  Although the transition to the open contract did not happen overnight, by 1884, nearly three-quarters of Ayer's advertising billings were on an open contract basis.  Since Ayer was, by the 1890s, the largest agency in America, the switch to direct payment by advertisers had a significant impact on the advertising industry, as other agencies were forced to respond to Ayer's higher standard.  Just as important, the open contract helped to establish N W Ayer's long-standing reputation for "clean ethics and fair dealing" -- a reputation the agency has guarded jealously for over a century.
The open contract also helped to establish Ayer as a full service advertising agency and to regularize the production of advertising in-house. From that point forward, Ayer routinely offered advice and service beyond the mere placement of advertisements.  Ayer set another milestone for the industry in 1888, when Jarvis Wood was hired as the industry's first full-time copywriter.  Wood was joined by a second full time copywriter four years later, and the Copy Department was formally established in 1900. The industry's first Art Department grew out of the Copy Department when Ayer hired its first commercial artist to assist with copy preparation in 1898; twelve years later Ayer became the first agency to offer the services of a full time art director, whose sole responsibility was the design and illustration of ads.

Ayer's leadership in the use of fine art in advertising has roots in this period, but achieved its highest expression under the guidance of legendary art director Charles Coiner.  Coiner joined Ayer in 1924, after graduating from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.  Despite early resistance from some clients, Coiner was adamant that "the use of outstanding palette and original art forms bring a greater return in readership, in impact and prestige for the advertiser."  To this end, Coiner marshaled the talents of notable painters, illustrators and photographers, including N.C. Wyeth and Rockwell Kent (Steinway), Georgia O'Keefe (Dole), Leo Lionni (DuPont), Edward Steichen (Steinway, Cannon Mills), Charles Sheeler (Ford), and Irving Penn (DeBeers).  Coiner believed that there was a practical side to the use of fine art in advertising, and his success (and Ayer's) lay in the marriage of research and copywriting with fine art, an arrangement Coiner termed "art for business sake." Coiner's efforts won both awards and attention for a series completed in the 1950s for the Container Corporation of America.  Titled "Great Ideas of Western Man" the campaign featured abstract and modern paintings and sculpture by leading U.S. and foreign artists, linked with Western philosophical writings in an early example of advertising designed primarily to bolster corporate image.  In 1994, Charles Coiner was posthumously named to the American Advertising Federation's Hall of Fame, the first full time art director ever chosen for that honor.

Coiner and fellow art director Paul Darrow also created legendary advertising with the "A Diamond Is Forever" campaign for DeBeers; ads featured the work of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and other modernist painters. The "A Diamond is Forever" tagline was written in 1949 by Frances Gerety, a woman copywriter at Ayer from 1943 to 1970. In 1999, Ad Age magazine cited "A Diamond is Forever" as the most memorable advertising slogan of the twentieth century.

Coiner also earned respect for his volunteer government service during World War II; he designed the armbands for civil defense volunteers and logos for the National Recovery Administration and Community Chest.  As a founding member of the Advertising Council in 1945, Ayer has had a long-standing commitment to public service advertising.   In the mid-1980s, Ayer became a leading force in the Reagan-era "War on Drugs".  Lou Hagopian, Ayer's sixth CEO, brokered the establishment of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a media coalition which generated as much as a million dollars a day in donated advertising space and time to prevent the use and abuse of illegal drugs. Famous names appear among NW Ayer's clientele from the very earliest days of the agency.  Retailer John Wanamaker, Jay Cooke and Company, and Montgomery Ward's mail-order business were among the first Ayer clients.  The agency has represented at least twenty automobile manufacturers, including Cadillac, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Plymouth, and Rolls-Royce. Other major, long-term clients through the years have included American Telephone & Telegraph, Canada Dry, Cannon Mills, Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Kellogg's, R. J. Reynolds, Steinway and Sons, United Airlines, and the United States Army. By the time of Ayer's hundredth anniversary in 1969, some of these companies had been Ayer clients for decades if not generations, and the longevity of those relationships was for many years a source of Ayer's strength.

 But the advertising industry began to change in the late 1960s and 1970s, due in part to a "creative revolution." Small advertising agencies won attention with provocative copywriting and art direction that more closely resembled art than advertising.  Advances in market research allowed clients to more narrowly tailor their advertising messages to distinct groups of consumers, and this led to a rise in targeted marketing which could more readily be doled out to specialized small agencies than to larger, established firms like NW Ayer & Son.  The civil rights and anti-war movements also contributed to increasing public skepticism with the values of corporate America, and by extension, with some national advertising campaigns.  Older, more conservative firms like Ayer were hard pressed to meet these new challenges.

About 1970, in an effort to meet these challenges and to establish a foothold on the West Coast, Ayer bought out two smaller agencies--Hixson & Jorgenson (Los Angeles) and Frederick E. Baker (Seattle).  The agency relocated from Philadelphia to New York City in 1974 in an attempt both to consolidate operations (Ayer had operated a New York office since the 1920s) and to be closer to the historic center of the advertising industry.  Riding the wave of mergers that characterized the advertising industry in the late 1980s and 1990s, Ayer continued to grow through the acquisition of Cunningham & Walsh in 1986 and Rink Wells in 19xx.

During this transitional period, Ayer received widespread acclaim for its work for the United States Army, which included the widely recognized slogan "Be All You Can Be".  Ayer first acquired the Army recruitment account in 1967 and with help from its direct marketing arm, the agency was widely credited with helping the Army reach its recruitment goals despite an unpopular war and plummeting enlistments after the elimination of the draft in 1973. Ayer held the account for two decades, from the Vietnam War through the Cold War, but lost the account in 1986 amid government charges that an Ayer employee assigned to the account accepted kickbacks from a New York film production house.  Despite Ayer's position as the country's 18th largest agency (with billings of $880 million in 1985), the loss of the agency's second largest account hit hard.

NW Ayer made up for the loss of the $100 million dollar a year Army account and made headlines for being on the winning end of the largest account switch in advertising history to date, when fast food giant Burger King moved its $200 million dollar advertising account from arch-rival J. Walter Thompson in 1987. Burger King must have had drive-thru service in mind, however, and Ayer made headlines again when it lost the account just eighteen months later in another record-breaking account switch. Another devastating blow to the agency was the loss of its lead position on the American Telegraph and Telephone account.  Ayer pioneered telecommunications advertising in 1908, when the agency was selected to craft advertising for the Bell System's universal telephone service. Despite valiant efforts to keep an account the agency had held for most of the twentieth century, and for which they had written such memorable corporate slogans as American Telephone &Telegraph "The Voice with a Smile" and "Reach Out and Touch Someone", the agency lost the account in 1996.

After a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the late 1980s, the economic recession of the early 1990s hit Madison Avenue hard, and Ayer was particularly vulnerable.  Despite the agency's long history and roster of "blue-chip" clients, Ayer was not known for cutting-edge creative work.  Moreover, though the agency had offices overseas, Ayer had never built a strong multinational presence, and many of the smaller international offices were sold during the financial turmoil of the 1980s.  This left a real void in the new climate of global marketplace consolidation.  By about 1990, earnings were declining (although Ayer was still among the top twenty United States agencies in billings), and the agency was suffering from client defections, high management turnover, expensive real estate commitments and deferred executive compensation deals, all fallout of the high-flying 1980s.  This was the atmosphere in 1993, when W.Y. Choi, a Korean investor who had already assembled a media and marketing empire in his homeland, began looking for an American partner to form an international advertising network.   Jerry Siano, the former creative director who had recently been named Ayer's seventh CEO, was in no position to refuse Choi's offer of $35 million to buy the now floundering agency. The infusion of cash was no magic bullet, however. Choi took a wait-and-see approach, allowing his partner Richard Humphreys to make key decisions about Ayer's future, including the purging of senior executives and the installation of two new CEOs in as many years.

The agency's downward trend continued with the loss of another longtime client, the DeBeers diamond cartel in 1995.  Adweek reported that Ayer's billings fell from $892 million in 1990 to less than $850 million in 1995. Several top executives defected abruptly, and the agency failed to attract major new accounts.  Ayer was facing the loss not merely of revenue and personnel, but the loss of much of the respect it once commanded.  Ayer remained among the twenty largest U.S. agencies, but an aura of uncertainty hung over the agency like a cloud.  A new CEO was appointed, and Mary Lou Quinlan became the agency's first woman CEO in 1995.  A year later, Ayer and another struggling top twenty agency, D'arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles, combined as part of the McManus Group of companies. In 1998, the McManus Group had worldwide billings of more than $6.5 billion.

Under the McManus Group, Ayer was able to expand its international operations and begin to rebuild a stronger global presence.  Several important new clients were won in 1997 and 1998, including Avon, General Motors, Kitchenaid, several Procter & Gamble brands and, most notably, Continental Airlines worldwide accounts.  Born in the nineteenth century, Ayer may be one of a very few advertising agencies to successfully weather the economic and cultural transitions of both the twentieth and twentieth first centuries. Ayer was eventually acquired by the Publicis Groupe based in Paris, France which closed down the N.W. Ayer offices in 2002.

content: 270 Cubic feet (1463 boxes, 33 map-folders, 7 films)

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label: Custodial History

content: The proofsheet collection was stored in the agency's Philadelphia headquarters for nearly fifty years. After relocating in New York, the agency decided to offer the proofsheets as a gift to the Smithsonian. They arrived at the National Museum of History and Technology (later the National Museum of American History) in March 1975, where they were in the care of the Museum's curator of mining, Dr. John Hoffman. Upon Hoffman's death in 1983, the collection was transferred to the Archives Center. In 1996 Ayer donated additional materials, including the 19th-century scrapbooks and business records.

label: Identifier

content: Collection descriptions

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content: Archival materials

content: Business records

indexedContent: Business records

content: Interviews

indexedContent: Interviews

content: Oral history

indexedContent: Oral history

content: Print advertising

indexedContent: Print advertising

content: Proof sheets

indexedContent: Proof sheets

content: Proofs (printed matter)

indexedContent: Proofs (printed matter)

content: Scrapbooks

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content: Trade literature

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content: Tear sheets

indexedContent: Tear sheets

content: Advertisements

indexedContent: Advertisements

label: Citation

content: NW Ayer & Sons, incorporated Advertising Agency Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

label: Arrangement

content:
The collection is arranged into twenty-three series.

Series 1: Scrapbooks of Client Print Advertisements, circa 1870-1920

Series 2: Proofsheets, circa 1870-1930

Series 3: Proofsheets, circa 1920-1975

Series 4: 2001 Addendum, circa 1976-2001

Series 5: Billboards, circa 1952-1956

Series 6: Audiovisual Materials

Series 7: Radio and Television Materials, 1933-1993, undated

Series 8: Chicago Office Print Advertisements, 1954-1989

Series 9:  Los Angeles Office Materials, 1950s-1987

Subseries 9.1: Printed Advertisements, 1977-1987

Subseries 9.2:  Personnel Files, 1950s-1970s

Series 10: Foreign Print Advertisements, 1977-1991, undated

Series 11: Cunningham & Walsh Incorporated Materials, 1915-1987, undated

Subseries 11.1: Printed Advertisements, 1915-1987

Subseries 11.2: Radio and Television Advertisements, 1963-1967

Subseries 11.3: Company Related Materials, 1962-1986, undated

Series 12: Hixson & Jorgensen Materials, 1953-1971, undated

Series 13: Newell-Emmet, 1942-1957

Series 14: House Print Advertisements, 1870-1991

Series 15: Scrapbooks, 1872-1959

Series 16: Publications, 1849-2006

Subseries 16.1: House Publications, 1876-1994

Subseries 16.2: Publications about NW Ayer, 1949-1995

Subseries 16.3: General Publications about Advertising, 1922-2006

Subseries 16.4: Publications about other Subjects, 1948-1964

Series 17, Business Records, circa 1885-1990s

Subseries 17.1: Contracts, 1885-1908, undated

Subseries 17.2: General Client Information, 1911-1999, undated

Subseries 17.3: Individual Client Account Information, 1950s-1990s, undated

Subseries 17.4: Potential Clients, 1993

Subseries 17.5: Financial Records, 1929-1938

Series 18: Legal Records, circa 1911-1984

Subseries 18.1: Advertising Service Agreements, 1918-1982

Subseries 18.2: Bylaw Materials, 1969-1972

Subseries 18.3, Copyright Claims, 1962-1969

Subseries 18.4: Correspondence, 1928-1933

Subseries 18.5: International Office Correspondence, 1947-1948

Subseries 18.6: Dissolution of Trusts, 1934-1937

Subseries 18.7: Stock Information, 1934-1974

Subseries 18.8: Agreements between Partners, 1911-1916

Subseries 18.9: Incorporation Materials, 1929-1977

Subseries 18.10: Certificates of Reduction of Capital, 1937; 1975

Subseries 18.11: Property Information

Subseries 18.12: Miscellaneous Materials, 1929-1977

Series 19: Employee Materials, circa 1889-2001

Subseries 19.1: Employee Card files, circa 1892-1915; 1929-1963

Subseries 19.2: Photographs, circa 1924-1984, undated

Subseries 19.3: Alumni Publications, circa 1989-1998

Subseries 19.4: Biographical Information, circa 1889-1994

Subseries 19.5: Speeches, circa 1919-1931; 1975

Subseries 19.6: Recollections, 1954-1984, undated

Subseries 19.7: Oral History Interview Transcripts, 1983-1985; 1989-1991

Subseries 19.8: Oral History Audiotapes, 1985-1990

Subseries 19.9: Internal Communications, 1993-1999

Subseries 19.1:  General Materials, 1940-2001

Series 20: History and Background Information about the Company, 1817-1999, undated

Series 21: Materials Created by other Advertising Agencies, 1945-1978, undated

Series 22: 2010 Addendum of Print Advertisements, circa 1879s-1990s, undated

Subseries 22.1: Print Advertisements, 1930-1990, undated

Subseries 22.2: Print Advertisements on Glass Plate Negatives, 1879-1881, undated

Series 23: Microfilm of Print Advertisements, circa 1908-1985

label: Processing Information

content: Processed by Mimi Minnick, archivist, 2002; Kate Richards (intern), April, 2004; Anne Jones (volunteer), August 2010; Ramona Williamson (volunteer), September 2010; Rebecca Wolfe (volunteer), September 2010, supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist.

label: Rights

content: Publication and production quality duplication is restricted due to complex copyright, publicity rights, and right to privacy issues. Potential users must receive written permission from appropriate rights holders prior to obtaining high quality copies. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

label: Genre/Form

content: Business records -- 1840-2000

content: Interviews -- 1980-2000

content: Oral history -- 1980-1990

content: Print advertising

content: Proof sheets

content: Proofs (printed matter)

content: Scrapbooks -- 1840-1990

content: Trade literature

content: Tear sheets

content: Advertisements

label: Scope and Contents

content:
The collection consists primarily of proof sheets of advertisements created by NW Ayer & Son, Incorporated for their clients.  These materials are in series one through thirteen and consist primarily of print advertisements.  There are also billboards, radio and television commercials.  The advertisements range from consumer to corporate and industrial products.   The majority of the advertisements were created for Ayer's New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and international offices.  Printed advertisements created by Cunningham & Walsh, Hixson & Jorgensen and Newell-Emmett are also included among these materials.  Researchers who are interested in records created by Ayer in the course of operating an advertising agency will find these materials in Series fourteen-nineteen.

Series fourteen consists of advertisements created by NW Ayer & Son to promote their services to potential clients.

Series fifteen are scrapbooks of some of the earliest advertisements created by the company.  Series sixteen are publications.  Some of the publications were created by Ayer while others were about Ayer or the advertising industry in general.  Provides good background materials and puts the company in perspective. Series eighteen are the legal records. Materials relating to employees including photographs, oral histories etc. are found in series nineteen.

Series twenty is one of the smallest amounts of materials and includes information relating to the history of NW Ayer & Son.

The container lists for series one-thirteen are part of a database and are searchable.  The list has been printed for the convenience of the researcher and is included in this finding aid.  Series fourteen-twenty container lists are also a part of the finding aid but are not in a searchable format.

Series 1, Scrapbooks of Client Advertisements, circa 1870-1920, is arranged into three boxes by chronological date. There are two bound scrapbooks and one box of folders containing loose scrapbook pages. NW Ayer & Son compiled an assortment of their earliest ads and placed them into scrapbooks. Besides the earliest advertisements, the scrapbooks contain requests to run advertisements, reading notices and listings of papers Ayer advertised in. The early advertisements themselves range from medical remedies to jewelry to machines to clothing to education and more. Most of the advertisements in the bound scrapbooks are dated.

Series 2, Proofsheets, circa 1870-1930, NW Ayer was fond of creating scrapbooks containing proofsheets. The series contains proofsheets created between 1892 and 1930, organized into 526 boxes. For convenience of storage, access and arrangement, the scrapbooks were disassembled and the pages placed in original order in flat archival storage boxes.  The proofsheets are arranged by book number rather than client name.  Usually the boxes contain a listing of the clients and sometimes the dates of the advertisements to be found within the box.

Series 3, Proofsheets, circa 1920-1975, is organized into 532 oversize boxes, and contain proofsheets and tearsheets created between 1920 and 1972. Within this series, materials are arranged alphabetically by company name (occasionally subdivided by brand or product), and thereunder chronologically by date of production.  Many major, national advertisers are represented, including American Telephone & Telegraph, Armour Company, Canada Dry, Cannon Mills, Carrier Corporation, Domino Sugar, Caterpillar tractor company, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Goodyear, Hills Bros. Coffee, Ladies Home Journal, National Dairy, Plymouth (Chrysler Corporation), Steinway, TV Guide, United Airlines and the United States Army.  Also contained in this series are three scrapbooks of client advertisements including Canada Dry, Ford Motor, and Victor Talking Machine.

Series 4, 2001 Addendum, circa 1976-2001, is organized into ninety three oversized boxes,one folder and contains proofsheets for select Ayer clients, created between 1975 and 2001. Within this series, materials are arranged alphabetically by client name and there under chronologically by date of production.  Major national advertisers represented include American Telephone & Telegraph, Avon, the United States Army, DeBeers Consolidated Diamond Mines, Dupont, TV Guide, Sealtest, Kraft Foods, Gillette, General Motors, Cannon Mills.

Series 5, Billboards, circa 1952-1956, consists of mounted and un-mounted original art/mock-ups. Twenty-two pieces of original art created as mock-ups for Texaco billboards.

Series 6, Film and Video Commercials, 1967-1970,

Series 7, Radio and Television Materials, 1933-1993, undated, is arranged into eight boxes and includes radio scripts, television scripts, and story boards for commercials.

Subseries 7.1, Scripts and storyboards for Radio and Television Commercials, dates Scripts for radio and television commercials includes title, date, length of commercial, advertising agency, client information

NW Ayer's radio and television materials mainly focus on the American Telegraph and Telephone account.   Some of Ayer's materials relate to Bell Telephone Hours.

Storyboards are used in television and film to assist the director in working with crew to tell the story. To show the viewer through the use of figures, visual effects and camera angles. When directors first start thinking about their storyboard they create a story in their mind. They think of all the camera angles, visual effects and how the figures will interact in their mind. They try to create an extraordinary story in their head to attract the viewer (YOU) In order for the storyboard to be entirely effective it can't be a passive document. When done properly, a storyboard serves as a central design, meeting the needs of many team members including graphics artists, video personnel and programmers.

Another function of a storyboard is to help the team communicate during the training development process. This communication is very important in working with a large team as in the movie King, produced in 1996. Figures help the director explain to the crew how they are going to record the film and how to present it to the audience. Sometimes the director wants special effects to be added to the film, but his budget might not be that big so the director will have to change the story to fit their budget.

The Visual Effects are an important part in the storyboards it adds a special touch of creativity to your film. Camera angles are an important expects in your film because the camera angles determine where the viewing audience will look. If you want your audience to look at a certain object you must turn their attention to it by focusing on that object and maybe you might try blocking something out. Then you will have your audience's attention and you may do whatever else you have to, it could be scaring them are just surprising them or whatever you do.

Also included is talent information and log sheets relating to the storage of the commercials.

Bell Telephone Hour Program, 1942-[19??], The Bell Telephone Hour, also known as The Telephone Hour, was a five minute musical program  which began April 29, 1940 on National Broadcasting Company Radio and was heard on NBC until June 30, 1958. Sponsored by Bell Telephone showcased the best in classical and Broadway music, reaching eight to nine million listeners each week. It continued on television from 1959 to 1968.

Earlier shows featured James Melton and Francia White as soloists.  Producer Wallace Magill restructured the format on April 27, 1942 into the "Great Artists Series" of concert and opera performers, beginning with Jascha Heifetz. Records indicate that the list of talents on the program included Marian Anderson, Helen Traubel, Oscar Levant, Lily Pons, Nelson Eddy, Bing Crosby, Margaret Daum, Benny Goodman, José Iturbi, Gladys Swarthout and .The series returned to radio in 1968-1969 as Bell Telephone Hour Encores, also known as Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour, featuring highlights and interviews from the original series.

National Broadcasting television specials sponsored by the Bell System, 1957-1987includes information relating to Science series, Bell system Theshold Series, Bell telephone hour and commercial and public sponsored programs

Series 8, Chicago Office Print Advertisements, 1954-1989, is arranged alphabetically by the name of the client in ninety boxes and six oversize folders.  Clients include Illinois Bell Telephone (1955-1989), Microswitch (1969-1989), Teletype (1975-1984), John Deere (1974-1989) and Caterpillar (1966-1972) are particularly well represented.  Other clients of interest include Dr. Scholl's shoes (circa 1968-1972), the Girl Scouts (1976-1980), Sunbeam Personal Products Company (1973-1981), Bell and Howell (1974-1983) and Alberto Culver shampoos (1967-1971), Honeywell, Incorporated, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations, Kraft, Incorporated, Sears, Roebuck and Company, and YMCA.

Series 9, Los Angeles Office Materials, 1950s-1987, include printed advertisements created by this office and information relating to the employees.

Subseries 9.1, Print Advertisements, 1977-1987, printed advertisements arranged in one box alphabetically by client. There is a sparse sampling of clients from this particular Ayer branch office. The majority of the advertisements contained within this series are from Pizza Hut (1986-1987). Also included are Computer Automation (1977-1978), State of the Art, Incorporated (1982) and Toshiba (1986).

Subseries 9.2, Personnel Files, 1950s-1970s, includes cards of employees who worked in the Los Angeles office.  Information on the cards includes name, address, telephone number, birthday, date hired, departure date and why (retired, terminated, resigned, etc) and position. Not all cards have all information. There is also a photograph of the employees on the cards.

Series 10, Foreign Print Advertisements, 1977-1991, undated, NW Ayer maintained partnerships with international companies such as Sloanas Ayer in Argentina, Connaghan & May Paton Ayer in Australia, Moussault Ayer in Belgium, NW Ayer, LTD. in Canada, GMC Ayer in France, Co-Partner Ayer in Germany, Wong Lam Wang in Hong Kong, MacHarman Ayer in New Zealand, Grupo de Diseno Ayer in Spain, Nedeby Ayer in Sweden, and Ayer Barker in United Kingdom. This group of material is a small sampling of advertisements created from these International offices. It is arranged alphabetically by client. There are quite a few automobile advertisements (i.e. Audi, Fiat, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen). In addition there are numerous advertisements for various personal items from MacLean's toothpaste to Quick athletic shoes to Labello lip balm, etc.  Most of the advertisements have the creator's name printed on the advertisements.

Series 11, Cunningham & Walsh, Incorporated Materials, 1915-1987, undated contains 98 boxes 11 folders materials from the New York advertising agency acquired by NW Ayer in the 1960s.  The company began with Newel-Emmett, an agency of nine men which broke up in 1949.  Two of the men Fred Walsh and Jack Cunningham formed this agency in bearing their names in 1950.  The agency created "let your fingers for the walking campaign for American Telephone & Telegraph, Mother Nature for Chiffon, and Mrs. Olson for Folgers's coffee and let the good times roll for Kawasaki motorcycle.  In 1986, NW Ayer Incorporated purchased Cunningham & Walsh Incorporated.

Subseries 11.1, Print Advertisements, 1915-1987, are contained in ninety eight boxes of primarily print advertisements arranged alphabetically by client name. Clients that are particularly well represented are Graybar (electrical implements, circa1926-1937), Johns-Manulle (circa1915-1971), Smith and Corono typewriters (circa 1934-1960), Sunshine Biscuit Company (circa 1925-1961), Texaco Company (circa 1936-1961), Western Electric (circa 1920- 1971) and Yellow Pages (circa 1936-1971).  Cunningham and Walsh also represented several travel and tourism industry clients, including Cook Travel Services (circa 1951-1962), Italian Line (circa 1953-1961), Narragansett and Croft (circa 1956-1960) and Northwest Airlines (circa 1946-1955). There are photographs of Texaco advertisements dating from 1913-1962.  There is also a scrapbook of advertisements from the Western Electric Company dating from 1920-1922.

Subseries 11.2, Radio and Television Advertisements, 1963-1967, consist of materials created for Western Electric.  Materials are arranged in chronological order.

Subseries 11.3, Company Related Materials, 1962-1986, undated include client lists, information relating to NW Ayer purchase and annual report 1962.

Series 12, Hixson & Jorgensen Materials, 1953-1971, a Los Angeles advertising company, merged with Ayer in 1969. This series is housed in one box. Within the box are four scrapbooks and folders with a hodgepodge of materials relating to advertising. Of most interest are the scrapbooks. Two scrapbooks deal with Hixson and Jorgensen's self promotion ad campaign "the right appeal gets action" (1953-1957). The other two scrapbooks contain news clippings about the company and its activities (1959-1971).

Series 13, Newell-Emmet, 1942-1957, founded in 1919 and governed in the 1940s by a partnership of nine men.  The partnership broke up in 1949 when the men went their separate ways.  The materials consist of print advertisements for one of client, Permutit Company, a water conditioning company. The materials are arranged in one box in chronological order.

Series 14, House Print Advertisements, 1870-1991, 16 boxes consists of advertisements or self-promotion advertisements to campaign for new clients. The series is arranged chronologically by date into fifteen boxes.  Within the series are two scrapbooks containing self promotion ads from 1888-1919 and 1892-1895. Numerous house ads relate to Ayer's "Human Contact" campaign.  In addition to the self promotion ads, Ayer ran advertisements expounding about particular concepts or themes for example, one month the concept would "understand" while another month would be "teamwork" and yet another would be on "imagination".  Some of the self promotion ads target specific groups like Philadelphia businessmen. Other advertisements incorporate the fine arts.

Series 15, Scrapbooks, 1872-1959, relates to company events, records and news clippings about Ayer's history. The six boxes are arranged by chronological date. Two of the boxes focus solely on the death of founder F.W. Ayer (1923). Another box houses a scrapbook that showcases Ayer's annual Typography Exhibition (1931-1959). One box contains a scrapbook that specifically deals with correspondences relating to Ayer's advertising. Yet another box's contents are folders of loose pages from scrapbooks that have newspaper clippings, order forms, correspondences and other company records. In one box, a bound scrapbook houses a variety of materials relating to Ayer and advertising (i.e. newspaper clippings, competitor's advertisements, NW Ayer's advertisements, correspondences for advertisements, clippings regarding the "theory of advertising."

Series 16, Publications, 1849-2006, are housed in thirty four boxes and are arranged into three main categories.

Subseries 16.1, House Publications, 1876-1994, covers diverse topics; some proscriptive works about the Ayer method in advertising, some commemorating people, anniversaries or events in the life of the agency.  Materials consist of scattered issues of the employee newsletter The Next Step 1920-1921.  The materials are arranged in chronological order by date of publication. Ayer in the News, The Show Windows of an Advertising Agency, 1915, book form of advertisements published on the cover of Printer's Ink, highlighting Ayer's relations with advertisers. The Story of the States, 1916, Reprint in book form of a series of articles published in Printer's Ink for the purpose of adding some pertinent fact, progressive thought and prophetic vision to the Nationalism of Advertising highlights major businesses, manufacturer, natural resources and other qualities or attractions of each state. The Book of the Golden Celebration, 1919, includes welcome address and closing remarks by founder F. Wayland Ayer, The Next Step, 1920 employee newsletter with photographs, employee profiles, in-house jokes, etc.,  Advertising Advertising: A Series of Fifty-two Advertisements scheduled one time a week. Twenty-seven, thirty and forty inches, a day of the week optional with publisher, 1924

Subseries 16.2, Publications about NW Ayer, 1949-2006, includes a book first published in 1939. Includes articles,    documenting events and is arranged chronologically by date of publication.

Subseries 16.3, General Publications about Advertising, 1922-1974, are arranged chronologically by date of publication and relate primarily to the history of advertising.

Subseries 16.4, Publications about Other Subjects, 1948-1964, include four books about the tobacco industry primarily the history of the American Tobacco Company and Lorillard Company from the Cunningham and Walsh library.

Series 17, Business Records, circa 1885-1990s

Subseries 17.1, Contracts, 1885-1908, undated, are arranged alphabetically and span from 1885-1908.  The majority of the contracts are with newspaper and magazine publishers from around the country.

Subseries 17.2, General client information, 1911-1999, undated, including active and cancelled lists with dates,  client gains, historical client list,  (should move this to series 20) Ayer Plan User Guide Strategic Planning for Human Contact, undated

Subseries 17.3, Individual Client Account Information, 1950s-1990s, undated, contain information used by Ayer to create advertisements for some of its clients.  American Telephone &Telegraph Corporate Case History, American Telephone &Telegraph Corporate advertisement memo, commissioned artists for DeBeers advertisements, DeBeers information relating to the creative process and photography credits, a case history for DeBeers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., The Diamond Engagement Ring, Managing Communication at all levels, DuPont publications, JC Penny Marketing Communication Plan Recommendation, Leaf, Incorporated, Saturn presentation, and USAREC oral presentation.

Subseries 17.4, Potential Clients, 1993, includes grouping has a questionnaire sent to Ayer by a potential client. Questionnaire response for Prudential Securities, 1993 Prudential Securities advertising account review, 1993.

Subseries 17.5, Financial Records, 1929-1938, includes balance sheet, 1929 May 1 Balance sheet and adjustments Consolidated statement of assets and liabilities, Expenses 191936-37 Business review and expenses, 1937 and 1938 Business review and expenses comparative statement, 1937 and 1938.

Series 18, Legal Records, circa 1911-1982, Ayer's legal records are arranged by twelve subject groupings within four boxes. The twelve groupings are advertising service agreements (circa 1918-1982), bylaws, copyright claims, correspondences, international correspondences, dissolution of trusts, stock information, agreements between partners, incorporation materials, reduction of capital, property information and miscellaneous materials.  The bulk of the materials are the advertising service agreements.  These agreements are between Ayer and their clients and state the services Ayer will offer and at what cost. The bylaws are Ayer's company bylaws from 1969 and 1972.  The copyright claims are certificates stating Ayer's ownership over certain published materials (i.e. "Policy", Media Equalizer Model, and Don Newman's Washington Square Experiment).  The correspondences relate to either the voting trust and receipts for agreement or the New York Corporation.  The international correspondences are from either Ayer's Canadian office or London office.  The dissolutions of trusts contains materials about the dividend trust of Wilfred F. Fry, the investment trust of Winfred W. Fry, the voting trust, and the New York corporation.   The stock information has stock certificates and capital stock information.  The agreements between partners (1911-1916) specify the terms between F.W. Ayer and his partners.  The incorporation materials (circa 1929-1977) deal with Ayer advertising agency becoming incorporated in the state of Delaware.  The reduction of capital grouping is a notification that shares of stock have been retired.  The property information grouping contains property deeds and insurance policy (circa 1921-1939), a property appraisal (1934), and a bill of sale (1948). The miscellaneous grouping contains a house memo regarding a set of board meeting minutes and a registry of foreign companies in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1929-1954).

Subseries 18.1, Advertising Service Agreements, 1918-1982

Subseries 18.2, Bylaw Materials, 1969-1972

Subseries 18.3, Copyright Claims, 1962-1969

Subseries 18.4, Correspondence, 1928-1933

Subseries 18.5, International Office Correspondence, 1947-1948

Subseries 18.6, Dissolution of Trusts, 1934-1937

Subseries 18.7, Stock Information, 1934-1974

Subseries 18.8, Agreements between Partners, 1911-1916

Subseries 18.9, Incorporation Materials, 1929-1977

Subseries 18.10, Certificates of Reduction of Capital, 1937; 1975

Subseries 18.11, Property Information, 1921-1948

Subseries 18.12, Miscellaneous Materials, 1929-1977

Series 19, Personnel Records, circa 1889-2001, are arranged into eight groupings within eight boxes.  The groupings are employee card files, photographs, Ayer alumni, biographies, speeches, recollections, oral histories, and miscellaneous.  Typed manuscript of book A Copy Writer Speaks by George Cecil, NW Ayer, Incorporated copy head 1920s-1950s

Subseries 19.1, Employee card files, circa 1892-1915; 1929-1963, consists of index cards with the name, age, job title, date and wage increases, date of hire/fire, as well as remarks about the employee's service and/or reasons for seeking or leaving the job.  Materials are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the employee within three boxes.

Subseries 19.2, Photographs, circa 1924-1984, undated, are housed in two boxes.  The photographs grouped together by subjects i.e. personnel, company events, Ayer buildings, and miscellaneous.  This grouping primarily consists of personnel photographs. Includes a glass plate negative dated 1924 of NW Ayer.

Subseries 19.3, Ayer Alumni, circa 1989-98, include employees who have left Ayer.  There is a listing of Ayer "graduates" and their current job.  Emeritus, Ayer's alumni newsletter 1989-1996, makes up the majority of materials in this grouping.  The newsletter keeps the alumni up to date with the happenings of Ayer and what has become of former Ayer employees.  Emeritus is a quarterly newsletter devoted to the activities, thoughts and feelings of Ayer alumni a body of people who consists of retirees and former employees.

Subseries 19.4, Biographical Information, circa 1889-1994, undated, prominent members of Ayer's operations had biographical sketches completed of them.  This was true for the bio sketches of Robert Ervin, Louis T. Hagopian, and George A. Rink.  There is a substantial file on Dorothy Dignam ("Mis Dig"), a leading woman in the advertising world from the 1930s to the 1950s.  Also of interest is a video ("The Siano Man") compiled by Ayer employees to commemorate Jerry Siano's retirement from Ayer in 1994.  The series is arranged alphabetically by last name.

Subseries 19.5, Speeches, circa 1919-1931; 1975, contains speeches made by Wilfred W. Fry and Neal W. O'Connor.  Wilfred W. Fry had various speaking engagements connected with Ayer.  Contained in this group is a sampling of his speeches from 1919 to 1931. Neal O'Connor's speech "Advertising: Who Says It's a Young People's Business" was given at the Central Region Convention for the American Association of Advertising Agencies in Chicago on November 6, 1975. The speeches are arranged alphabetically by the speaker's last name.

Subseries 19.6, Recollections, 1954-1984, undated, are arranged alphabetically by last name.  These are recollections from Ayer employees about the company and its advertisements.  Some recollections are specifically about certain types of advertisements, like farm equipment while others reflect on F. W. Ayer and the company.

Subseries 19.7, Oral History Interview Transcripts, 1983-1985; 1989-1991, include interviews with key NW Ayer personnel, conducted by Ayer alumnae Howard Davis, Brad Lynch and Don Sholl (Vice President creative) for the Oral History Program.  The materials are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the interviewee.

Subseries 19.8, Oral History Interview Audio Tapes, 1985-1990, include interviews on audiotape the materials are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the interviewee.

Subseries 19.9, Internal Communications, 1993-1999, includes information sent to employees relating to retirements, management changes, awards won by the company, promotions, potential new accounts, free items, grand opening of  Ayer Café, donation events, sponsorship programs, holiday schedules, discounts for employees from clients, Ayer joins MacManus Group.

Subseries 19.10, General Materials, 1940; 1970, includes  agency directory entry including a list of the employees, 1970s, annual banquet program for the Curfew Club May 22, 1940 a group formed by the Philadelphia employee in 1938.  It sponsored numerous sports, social and educational activities. Groups were formed in public speaking, music appreciation and a series of talks on Monday evenings title the modern woman. The front page was a series of talks for general interest.  A list of officers, 1991, Twenty five year club membership, 1973 December 1, List of NW Ayer graduates, 1970, List of Officers, 1991 May 31, Obituary for Leo Lionni, 1999 October 17, List of photographers of advertisements, 2001

Series 20, Background and History Information, 1817-1999, undated includes a chronology, 1817-1990, quick reference timeline, 1848-1923, loose pages from a scrapbook containing examples of correspondence, envelopes, advertisements dating from 1875-1878; slogans coined by NW Ayer & Sons, Incorporated, 1899-1990, history of management, 1909-1923, articles and photographs about the building and art galleries, 1926-1976, publications about the Philadelphia building, 1929, pamphlet relating to memories of NW Ayer & Sons, Incorporated, 1930s-1950s, television history, 1940-1948, Article about the history of the company, 1950 January, pocket guide, 1982, AdWeek reports about standings for advertising agencies,  information relating to Human Contact which is NW Ayer's Information relating to Human Contact, undated which is their philosophy on advertising.

Series 21, Materials Created by other Advertising Agencies, 1945-1978, undated, consists of print advertisements collected by Ayer from other major advertising companies.  The companies include Doyle Dane Bernback, Incorporated, Leo Burnett Company, Grey Advertising Agency, D'Arcy Ad Agency, Scali, McCabe, Sloves, Incorporated and Erwin Wasey Company. The materials are arranged in alphabetical order by client and include products from Ralston Purina and Van Camp (Chicken of the Sea), Kellogg, American Export Lines and No Nonsense Fashions.

Series 22, 2010 Addendum of Print Advertisements, circa 1879s-1999, undated, includes material given to the Archives Center in 2010. It is organized into seventy one oversized boxes and contains  proofsheets of print advertisements for select Ayer clients. These are arranged alphabetically by client name and include substantial  quantities of materials from American Telephone &Telegraph (1945-1996), Bahamas Ministry of Tourism (1967-1987), Carrier (1971-1981), Citibank (1973-1991), DeBeers (1940s-1960s and1990s), Electric Companies Advertising Program [ECAP] (1942-1970s), General Motors (1989-1998), J.C. Penney (1983-1986), Newsweek (1966-1975), and Proctor and Gamble (1980s-1890s). There are also numerous other clients represented by smaller quantities of materials.

Subseries 22.1, Print Advertisements, 1930-1990, undated

Subseries 22.2, Print Advertisements on Glass Plate Negatives, 1879-1881, undated, include Cannon towels, Cheny  Brothers silks, Cornish & Company  organs and pianos, Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 1879 sad iron, an ad from Harper's Weekly 1881 for ladies clothing, Ostermoor & Company mattresses, Pear's soap, Porter's cough balsam, Steinway pianos.

Series 23, Microfilm of Print Advertisements, circa 1908-1985, consists of three boxes of printed advertisements for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.   Some of the same advertisements might also be found in series two, three and four.

label: Restrictions

content:
The collection is open for research use.

Physical Access: Researchers must use microfilm copy. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audiovisual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow.

Technical Access: Viewing the film portion of the collection without reference copies requires special appointment, please inquire; listening to audio discs requires special arrangement. Do not use original materials when available on reference video or audio tapes.

label: Related Materials

content:
Materials in the Archives Center

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (AC0060)

Hills Bros. Coffee Incorporated Records (AC0395)

unitid: Collection NMAH.AC.0059

unittitle: N W Ayer Advertising Agency Records

title: N W Ayer Advertising Agency Records


title: Snow-White, print

label: Collection Creator

content: Gossage, James D.

indexedContent: Gossage, James D.

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content: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection

indexedContent: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection

content: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection / Series 1: Caffe Cino (New York, New York) / 1.1: Programs, Correspondence, and Ephemera

label: Date

label: Container

content: Box 1, Folder 26

label: Archival Repository

label: Type

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

label: Collection Citation

content: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

label: Collection Rights

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

label: Collection Restrictions

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection

unittitle: Caffe Cino (New York, New York)

unittitle: Programs, Correspondence, and Ephemera

unittitle: Snow-White, print

title: Snow-White, print


title: Man With Panda, photograph of collage by Magie Dominic

content: Gossage, James D.

content: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection

content: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection / Series 2: Dominic, Magie

content: Box 2, Folder 10

content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Dominic, Magie


title: The Warhol Machine, program

content: Gossage, James D.

content: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection

indexedContent: Magie Dominic Caffe Cino Collection / Series 1: Caffe Cino (New York, New York) / 1.1: Programs, Correspondence, and Ephemera

content: Box 1, Folder 27

indexedContent: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Archival materials

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: The Warhol Machine, program

title: The Warhol Machine, program


title: Unprocessed materials (Florence Whyte)

label: Collection Collector

content: Kovan, Florice Whyte

indexedContent: Kovan, Florice Whyte

label: Collection Author

content: Whyte, Virgil (bandleader)

indexedContent: Whyte, Virgil (bandleader)

content: Virgil Whyte "All-Girl" Band Collection

indexedContent: Virgil Whyte "All-Girl" Band Collection

content: Box 7

content: Archival materials

content: Virgil Whyte's "All-Girl" Band Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Virgil Whyte "All-Girl" Band Collection

unittitle: Unprocessed materials (Florence Whyte)

title: Unprocessed materials (Florence Whyte)


title: Lyndon Johnson, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, "On This Hallowed Ground" Poster

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

indexedContent: Ellington, Duke

content: Duke Ellington Collection

indexedContent: Duke Ellington Collection

content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 13: Awards

label: Sponsor

content: Processing and encoding partially funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

content: May 30, 1963

content: Box 9 (Series 13), Folder 1

content: Archival materials

content: Duke Ellington Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Copyright restrictions. Consult the Archives Center at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

Paul Ellington, executor, is represented by:

Richard J.J. Scarola, Scarola Ellis LLP, 888 Seventh Avenue, 45th Floor, New York, New York 10106. Telephone (212) 757-0007 x 235; Fax (212) 757-0469; email: rjjs@selaw.com; www.selaw.com; www.ourlawfirm.com.

content: Collection is open for research but the original and master audiovisual materials are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Duke Ellington Collection

unittitle: Awards


title: Graphics, Duke Ellington Cutout

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Duke Ellington Collection

content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 12: Posters and Oversize Graphics / 12.4: Oversized Graphics / 12.4.3: Graphics

content: undated

content: Box 5 (Series 12), Folder 12

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Posters and Oversize Graphics

unittitle: Oversized Graphics

unittitle: Graphics

unittitle: Graphics, Duke Ellington Cutout

title: Graphics, Duke Ellington Cutout


title: "Galankonzert mit Duke Ellington und seinem Orchestra."

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Duke Ellington Collection

content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 12: Posters and Oversize Graphics / 12.2: Foreign Tours / 12.2.3: Germany

content: Map-folder 5

content: Archival materials

label: Scope and Contents note

content:
Deutschen Museum, Munich?; October 29, 1969.

Half sized. 32 x 23. 2c. Full color.

unittitle: Foreign Tours

unittitle: Germany


title: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Hollywood, California, Notification of Nomination for "Grammy" Award

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Duke Ellington Collection

indexedContent: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 13: Awards

content: Box 1 (Series 13), Folder 36

content: Archival materials


title: Scrapbook, microfilm

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Duke Ellington Collection

content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 8: Scrapbooks / 8.2: Scrapbooks, Microfilm

content: 1938 March 3 - 1939 May 10

content: Roll 1, Volume 4

content: Archival materials

content: Microform

indexedContent: Microform

label: Subseries Restrictions

content: Microfilm of scrapbooks is available in the National Museum of American History Library Branch. See call number mfm 001174. See repository staff for details about accessing the microfilm.

unittitle: Scrapbooks

unittitle: Scrapbooks, Microfilm

unittitle: Scrapbook, microfilm

title: Scrapbook, microfilm


title: "Ellington Music In Premier Here," from The Courier, Milton/Milton Junction, Wisconsin, May 12, 1966

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Duke Ellington Collection

content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 10: Magazine Articles and Newspaper Clippings / 10.1: Domestic Articles

content: Box 3 (Series 10), Folder 29

content: Archival materials

unittitle: Domestic Articles


title: International Tours, Japan

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Duke Ellington Collection

content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 7: Photographs, Duke Ellington Collection

content: undated

content: Box 12 (Series 7), Folder 8

content: Archival materials

content: Photographs

indexedContent: Photographs

label: Series Restrictions

content: Unrestricted research access on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

unittitle: Photographs, Duke Ellington Collection

unittitle: International Tours, Japan

title: International Tours, Japan


title: Scrapbook, microfilm

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Duke Ellington Collection

indexedContent: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 8: Scrapbooks / 8.2: Scrapbooks, Microfilm

content: 1966 April 18 - 1965 August 1

content: Roll 8, Volume 43

content: Archival materials

content: Microform

title: Scrapbook, microfilm


title: Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia,Doctor of Humanities Honorary Degree

content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

content: Duke Ellington Collection

content: April 29, 1973

content: Box 4 (Series 13), Folder 16

content: Archival materials


title: Original of Titles and Some Scenes from Plate Crystal

content: Mundel, Marvin Everett, 1916-1996 (industrial engineer)

content: Marvin E. Mundel Industrial Engineering Collection / Films and Videos / Rating Films

label: Extent

content: 1 Film reel

content: circa 1965

content: Reel OF 676.1

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images [31983000020362]

content: Film reels

indexedContent: Film reels

content: Marvin E. Mundel Industrial Engineering Collection, 1937-1996, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

content: Copyright held by the Smithsonian Institution. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

label: Scope and Contents

content: Demonstration Rating Film. 16mm black and white silent camera original reversal, 417 feet. Original titles used with other rating films combined into one film by Mundel. Also included some scenes from the plate radio crystal rating film.

content: The collection is open for research use.

unittitle: Films and Videos

unittitle: Rating Films


title: Sailboat Hulls

label: Collection Creator

content: Darby, S. Newman, 1928-2016 (inventor)

indexedContent: Darby, S. Newman, 1928-2016 (inventor)

content: Darby, Kenneth

indexedContent: Darby, Kenneth

content: Darby, Naomi

indexedContent: Darby, Naomi

content: S. Newman Darby Windsurfing Collection

indexedContent: S. Newman Darby Windsurfing Collection

content: S. Newman Darby Windsurfing Collection / Series 2: Inventions and Designs

flag: datechar:creation era:ce normal:1977/1977 type:inclusive

content: 1977 - 1977

content: Box 1, Folder 8

content: Archival materials

content: S. Newman Darby Windsurfing Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: S. Newman Darby Windsurfing Collection

unittitle: Inventions and Designs

unittitle: Sailboat Hulls

title: Sailboat Hulls


title: In Motion

content: Granatelli, Andy, 1923-2013

indexedContent: Granatelli, Andy

label: Collection Donor

content: Granatelli, Vincent, 1944-2022

indexedContent: Granatelli, Vincent

content: Grancor Automotive Specialists

indexedContent: Grancor Automotive Specialists

content: Hurricane Hot Rod Association

indexedContent: Hurricane Hot Rod Association

content: Studebaker Corporation

indexedContent: Studebaker Corporation

label: See more items in

content: Andy Granatelli Collection

indexedContent: Andy Granatelli Collection

content: Andy Granatelli Collection / Series 9: Audiovisual Materials / Motion Picture Film / Miscellaneous Racing Films

content: 1 Film reel (color, composite optical soundtrack, print, 16mm, 1010 feet)

content: Reel OF 1403.78

content: Archival materials

indexedContent: Archival materials

content: Moving Images [31983000002337]

content: Film reels

content: Andy Granatelli Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Produced by Eaton Corporation.

content: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270. Viewing film and audio portion of collection requires special appointment. See repository for details.

unittitle: Andy Granatelli Collection

unittitle: Audiovisual Materials

unittitle: Motion Picture Film

unittitle: Miscellaneous Racing Films

unittitle: In Motion

title: In Motion


title: loose newspaper clippings, 1954

content: Wise, Brownie Humphrey, 1913-1991

indexedContent: Wise, Brownie Humphrey

content: Brownie Wise Papers

indexedContent: Brownie Wise Papers

content: Brownie Wise Papers / Series 3: Tupperware Home Parties / 3.6: Publicity

label: Container

content: Box 19, Folder 2

content: Archival materials

content: Brownie Wise Papers, 1938-1968, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection is open for research.

unittitle: Brownie Wise Papers

unittitle: Tupperware Home Parties

unittitle: Publicity

unittitle: loose newspaper clippings, 1954

title: loose newspaper clippings, 1954


title: Western Union Relays, Part I

content: United Telegraph Workers.

indexedContent: United Telegraph Workers.

content: Western Union Telegraph Company

indexedContent: Western Union Telegraph Company

content: Western Union Telegraph Company Records

indexedContent: Western Union Telegraph Company Records

content: Western Union Telegraph Company Records / Series 26: Audiovisual Materials / 26.1: Employee Training Films / Western Union Relays

content: 1 Videocassettes (VHS)

label: Date

content: circa 1931

content: Box 810, Item RV 205.11

label: Archival Repository

content: Archival materials

content: Moving Images

indexedContent: Moving Images

content: Videocassettes (vhs)

indexedContent: Videocassettes (vhs)

content: Western Union Telegraph Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

content: Collection is open for research but Series 11 and films are stored off-site. Special arrangements must be made to view some of the audiovisual materials. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.

unittitle: Western Union Telegraph Company Records

unittitle: Employee Training Films

unittitle: Western Union Relays

unittitle: Western Union Relays, Part I

title: Western Union Relays, Part I


title: 35, Entrance to the Gallery Axen Strasse, Switzerland

content: Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.

content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Civil Engineering Department

content: Underwood and Underwood

indexedContent: Underwood and Underwood

content: Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection / Series 1: Engineering / 1.17: Tunneling

content: undated

content: Box 77, Item 34

label: Type

content: Archival materials

content: Photographs

indexedContent: Photographs

label: Collection Citation

content: Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection, 1758-1945, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

content: Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

unittitle: Engineering

unittitle: Tunneling